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At the moment, Kanye West can seemingly do no wrong. Ignoring the downsides – and the urge to make an incredibly tasteless joke – things are going pretty well for Mr West. So, you can understand the palpable excitement around his new trainers called the Air Yeezy's. But are they any good?
From sweatshop to runway: a denim photo essay
Time magazine have produced an amazing series of photographs on the journey of a pair of jeans, from production in Chinese and Sri Lankan factories to runways and shops. Workers churn out 10,000 pairs a day, hand-distressing and sewing denim.
Konaka Shower Clean suit
Savile Row tailors John Pearse, under license for Konaka are the name behind a new suit which needs no dry-cleaning. The idea is that thanks to the special fabric — a mixture of fibres including wool and polyester — you can wash your suit in the shower before you got to bed and the next it will be dry and wrinkle free and fresh.
Marc Jacobs interview
Men.Style.com have a great article on Marc Jacobs up where he addresses issue with his shows, his body and accusations of a midlife crisis. His response to the latter is "I don't feel like I'm in crisis, and I don't know that it's the middle of my life". Fair enough.
Onistuka Tiger launches vending machine for trainers
Sticking to their Japanese roots Onitsuka Tiger launched the world's first vending machine for trainers today.
People still willing to form ridiculous queues, Bape celebrate
During the peak of 'hype' fever a couple of years ago, it wasn't anything to see a queue of kids snaking round Soho queuing for a new Bape release.
Add us on Twitter!
You might have noticed a new addition to Brandish, we've added a Twitter feed where we will be posting our sartorial musings.
Dazed & Confused: Kevin May 2008
What do you get when you combine a fashion director, a fairly underground-style publication, techno dancers and new fashion? No, not a waft of nostalgia (at least I should hope not) and not a drug-fuelled roller-disco but the latest Dazed & Confused cover.
Acne collaborate with Fantastic Man for their 'Gentleman's Jeans'
The Dutch duo behind the beloved Fantastic Man magazine have teamed up with Acne to produce the 'Gentleman's Jeans', a pair of slightly tapered slim-ish fitting dark denim jeans. The Fantastic Man editors Gert Jonkers & Jop van Bennekom describe it thus:
"It's reminiscent of a style that we'd see on our fathers and uncles — the dreaded pleated denim chino — but then updated and made wonderful for today and for ourselves."
Gucci designs Lenny Kravitz's stage costume
Not many musicians can claim that their concert costumes are designer-made.
Fred Perry X Paul Weller
Paul Weller and Fred Perry are so deeply
linked that you wonder why he hasn't just gave up the music stuff and just
started working for them full time. It's not like anyone wants to hear a new
album from him. This collection of polo shirts, due for release in
June, are pretty much what we've come to expect from their collaborations, in a
good way.
Fundies: 'the underwear built for two'
Essentially a large pair of pants, Fundies allow you to share undergarment space with a loved one; I've never seen anything quite like it before but they are up for grabs on eBay for $4.99 (link kind of nsfw).
Mr. Start menswear tailoring boutique launch
Gemma and I hot-footed it over to Old Street on Friday for the opening of Mr Start, Start Boutique menswear tailoring store.
Man About Town- Issue 2- Hayden Christensen
So I realise that this is the second time we ( fine, I) have looked at Hayden Christensen on a magazine cover over a relatively short time period but surely a young male celebrity who has every reason to be guarded with the use of his image but agrees to be on the cover of a men's (non-dirty) magazine in only its second issue deserves to mentioned in our blog? Now better looking blog I might mention.
Who hates the term 'manbags'?
The Guardian had an article up about men
with messenger
bags – I refuse to call them 'manbags' – Although I just did. Damn. They
ask five people ranging from Topman's design director to NME's editor about
what's in their bags, what make their bag is and how they feel about the term 'manbag'.
Russell Brand simultaneously one of the best and worst dressed men in Britain
GQ revealed their best dressed list on Wednesday, with Daniel Craig once again topping the polls for the second year running. But a couple of nominees managed to walk away with more accolades than the James Bond star, despite coming runner up.
Comme des Garcons for H&M coming to a store near you in Autumn!
The closest I've come to being this excited about an H&M collaboration is the forthcoming Marimekko collection, but the news that Comme Des Garçons are planning a collection with H&M surely tops them all.
Brandish gets a makeover
As you can tell we've been listening to the Poetic Poet's web design rapping (it's a piece of genius!) and we've given Brandish a bit of a redesign complete with a new logo. Do leave us a comment and let us know what you think!
Daniel Craig wins out over Noel Fielding by topping GQ's best dressed list
GQ have once again voted Daniel Craig as their best-dressed man, the bond star pipped Noel Fielding to the post who came second thanks to GQ tell us, 'mainly the female vote'.
VMAN 10- Spring/Summer 2008: Ashton Kutcher
About a month ago, I posted on an accessories editorial that had used graphics and colour to present a Manga-style perspective of this season's it-items. Well now, that same issue of one of menswear's most fashion-forward magazines has been released and Ashton Kutcher is on its cover.


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Beloved teacher and writer diesBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 06. 2013 11:24PM
MANCHESTER - Friends and former pupils are remembering Alma Langlois, who died Saturday at age 93, as a poignant historian and teacher whose lessons went beyond the classroom.
Langlois was born Feb. 6, 1920, in Portland, Maine, and moved to Manchester after World War II.
For 22 years, Langlois taught English at Manchester High School Central. She retired from teaching in 1984, but Mayor Ted Gatsas, a former Langlois pupil, said her impact was profound enough that he gave her a proclamation three years ago, when Langlois turned 90.
"She was a wonderful, wonderful teacher," Gatsas said.
For most of her time at Central, she served as the adviser to the Little Green student newspaper. She was twice named a semifinalist in the National Journalism Teacher of the Year competition run by Columbia University Press, and she published five books of poetry.
William A. Burns, who was principal of Central High from 1967 to 1993, said he kept the "numerous" awards won by Langlois and the Little Green in a display case at the school.
"She was really a very good teacher with the students," he said. "The students seemed to adore her.
"Anything said by me about her would be very positive," Burns said. "She was a great person. I liked her a great deal."
Langlois published a monthly column in the New Hampshire Sunday News called "Mirror on Manchester." It focused on the city's history.
"I did not have her as a teacher, but she taught me a lot about civility, the city and character," said Joseph W. McQuaid, president and Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader and president and chairman of the board of trustees of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. "The Loeb School was also thrilled to have her as one of its initial honorees."
Toni Pappas, past president of the Manchester Historic Association, said Langlois was able to portray Manchester's past in a special way.
"She just many times was able to capture the essence of what Manchester represents," Pappas said.
While in college at the University of Maine, Orono, she was president of the Sophomore Eagles, an editor for the campus newspaper and a member of the All Maine Women Honor Society. She also served as president of the Women's Student Council.

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|2012-08-15, 12:04
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It's like... if she's still going to behave exactly like this, even after she kissed him, and ever after Zenkichi fought for forty-two chapters to never have that kind of ending again... what the fuck was the point of everything he's done?
I feel used.
|2012-08-15, 12:08
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|2012-08-15, 12:26
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Will Nisio do something to help her try and fix that?
Who knows?
|2012-08-15, 15:46
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Paraphrasing off elsewhere:
"The parallel here actually shows growth because Medaka's saying the same thing, but the connotation is completely different. Medaka knows very well how important Zen was this arc (you could see how happy she was when she learnt he was looking for her), so this time she says it as a joke, knowing that Zenkichi is confident enough in himself to laugh with her. And he does, because they're close enough to make jabs at each other. The direct callback shows how much they're grown since then, more than anything else."
|2012-08-15, 16:29
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Medaka is a mind beast too huh. I cant believe I am saying this but I did not like Kumgawa this chapter, he was talking for the sake of talking, he did not say anything that the others could not say. If he is going to open his mouth he better be pissing somebody off or failing. Like a proper troll.
|2012-08-15, 18:29
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|2012-08-15, 19:39
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Just, wow. Absolutely atrocious.
Really goes to show how the past arc meant nothing at all, huh? Yet another instance where Kaisos has managed to speak my mind.
And did Torai just say that Medaka's her favorite prez with a blush? Ok, that's kind of funny. And cool.
But other than that...
|2012-08-15, 21:43
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lol. I don't really know why people still bother being Zenkichi fans. It's not as if Nishio hasn't made obvious this won't be a standard "wish-fulfillment" shounen story. Ideals like "work hard, you'll reach your dreams someday" are cheap. If Nishio already blatantly criticized most shounen stories as being power fantasies (i.e. 'be the main character, have the best bullshit power, and you get to win'), then it should be obvious that he will never let the male self-insert character (Zenkichi) be in that position.
You don't get to think "wow, Zenkichi is so awesome, I wish I could be like him". You get to think "poor Zenkichi, he'll never get a break/has no natural talent, I am like him". And that's how he'll stay.
(On the other hand, it's not like Nishio really manages to escape from shallow wish-fulfillment fantasy. The entire issue of Medaka being in love with Zenkichi cheapens the whole thing. Her 'single weakness/dependency' in the form of Zenkichi turns her into a caricature. You can't respect her as a self-determining human being.)
The above is false, somewhat. Medaka's weakness prevents her from being a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Nonetheless, her position/role in the story vis-a-vis Zenkichi inherently makes any uncomplicated romance between them a cheapening of the narrative.
Zenkichi's acceptance of his non-"special" role and ordinariness is vital to his character. It's the entire premise of his "Devil Style". With regards to the parallel lines which I posted (also, for the record, I didn't actually make that picture; I also stole it from "somewhere" :P), you should actually be respecting this aspect of Zenkichi's character growth and maturation. Medaka was right in both cases to tell Zenkichi to get over it, because caring for someone does not equate to coddling them for their failures. Rather, it is only because Zenkichi does not expect coddling from Medaka that he can even begin at present to think about being worthy of being in a romance with her.
|2012-08-15, 22:45
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Hell, at the end of the last arc, Zenkichi DID achieve his dreams by working hard, or at least we were led to believe that he did.
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|2012-08-15, 23:46
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It was also method to keep those stuck with this manga from chapter 1 for Medaka X Zenkichi hooked. If everything between them is resolved that crowd may very well drop the manga. Not everyone is here for the meta commentary afterall...
|2012-08-16, 02:06
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The real point is that it's not a question of "if I put in the effort, will my dreams come true?". It's an ultimatum of "if I don't put in the effort, I will never amount to anything". That is the reality for talentless people. Even with all your effort, it might still be the reality that your dreams are 100% impossible. Compared to the geniuses who seem to effortlessly achieve countless things you could never even hope to, that might seem like a cruel reality. However, despite that, it still comes down to the talentless to fight and struggle. Because they are talentless, it is not their dreams, but only their effort itself which makes their life meaningful.
To tell a talentless person that they can achieve their dream just so long as they try hard is a lie. It is irresponsible, it is a delusion, it is self-convenience. However, to tell a talentless person to fight--in fact, that is the only meaningful thing that you can do.
The end of the previous arc did not really show Zenkichi achieving anything. Even the feat of "defeating Medaka" could hardly be called something Zenkichi really wanted to do or tried hard for. What the previous arc actually did was show Zenkichi's will to fight despite all the hopelessness of being talentless/not "special"/incredibly far from Medaka--his will to let his effort be the only thing upon which he stands. That was Devil Style, Zenkichi's rejection/negation of the "Main Character". Truthfully, Zenkichi has no actual idea whether he will ever actually win, whether his effort will amount to anything; what Zenkichi's gamble symbolizes, really, is only some level of faith in the meaning of his effort and struggle in the universe.
The real point is, empathy itself is merely a moral input. The action which results is dependent on numerous other factors, which might override explicit empathy. For example, under Friedrich Nietzsche's thinking the common association of the "correct" moral response to someone else's suffering (i.e. Zenkichi's failure) being "pity" is a component of a morality system known as "slave" morality, which emphasizes the resentment of the inferior/less fortunate people (i.e. slaves) towards their superiors. Under the opposing morality, the "master" morality of superiors emphasizing self-determination and the instinctual, life-sustaining "will to power", the correct moral response to another person's suffering is cruel indifference. This is because the greatest offense to any person living by the principles of master morality is to have their pride/self-determination trampled upon by the pity of another. As you can see, both moralities are motivated by empathy.
So that is to say, you can't really judge whether or not Medaka has "empathy" just by looking at her actions. As for myself, I am fairly confident that at that point in the manga Medaka did understand Zenkichi's feelings. You have to understand, however, that even despite understanding Zenkichi's feelings, there are many legitimate reasons for why it might've been correct for Medaka to say what she did as opposed to comforting Zenkichi.
Rather than between Nishio's endless Mary Sues and the readers, accordingly, it'd be more accurate to say that the dialogue is actually between Nishio and his readers themselves. However, it's obvious that Nishio's intention isn't just to say "hey, I'm better than you", either (in the first place, no one would actually buy or enjoy that sort of book/story if that were the entire content, anyway). As a matter of fact, Nishio's protagonists themselves often are far in the shadow of alternative "perfect" characters in his stories, whether being self-loathing failures, inhuman sociopaths, incomplete "weapons", or talentless teenagers. In fact, the true purpose of the presence of "genius" or "genius characters" in Nishio's stories is merely to highlight that prior described reality, to force people into understanding of that distance between our own small worlds and the vastness of reality, i.e. true talent and genius. The real subtance of Nishio's stories themselves is not merely in the existence of genius characters, but how his protagonists, living in a world influenced by or aware of those geniuses, proceed in the face of that.
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Professor Steve Simpson elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
3 May 2013
Professor Steve Simpson, from the School of Biological Sciences and Director of the University's Charles Perkins Centre, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, announced in London on 3 May 2013.
The Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence and its Fellowship includes the world's most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, including more than 80 Nobel Laureates.
Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science. Professor Simpson was one of the 44 new Fellows elected in 2013 from a group of over 700 candidates proposed by the existing Fellowship.
"Being made a Fellow of the Royal Society is among the highest aspirations of any scientist, and being elected from overseas is especially difficult, so this for me is hugely thrilling. Very many outstanding scientists never manage to gain election, so there is a touch of good fortune involved as well," said Professor Simpson.
He joins eminent current Fellows of the Royal Society including Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Harry Kroto, Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Nurse and John Sulston.
Professor Simpson will attend the formal admission of new Fellows event on 12 July at the Royal Society in London, plus present on his research at the New Fellows Seminar on 10 and 11 July.
"The Admission Day ceremony in July culminates in signing the parchment book of Fellows using a quill pen. Apparently there are lessons given and plenty of blotting paper provided - I would hate to blot out Newton, Darwin or Einstein's signature thanks to faulty penmanship!" said Professor Simpson.
Professor Simpson is an international leader in his fields of multidisciplinary nutritional research and locust swarming, with his work revolutionising our understanding of the dietary causes of human obesity and ageing. His research began with a fundamental question: why and how do locusts swarm? In pursuing this question he has engaged with researchers across many disciplines and across the globe. He has created new and general biological paradigms that inform our thinking on important topics, such as managing human nutrition and obesity, ageing, and how ecosystems function.
In making him a Fellow, the Royal Society acknowledged that Professor Simpson's 'seminal work on locust swarming has provided a unifying framework, ranging from chemical events in nervous systems of individual insects to mass migration, using techniques from molecular biology, population genetics, neurophysiology, biochemistry, behaviour, biomathematics, statistical physics, computer science, engineering, robotics, evolutionary theory and landscape ecology. His work on nutrition has spanned slime moulds to humans, and has found significant practical applications in aquaculture, conservation biology, nutritional ecology, gerontology, immunity and human metabolic disease.'
"At the New Fellows Seminar, each new Fellow presents their work in fifteen minutes. This is a relatively new initiative, which originated from the Australian Academy of Science - I well remember giving that lecture when I was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. It is a real challenge to encapsulate a lifetime's work in fifteen minutes - every word counts," said Professor Simpson.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said: "Science helps us to better understand ourselves and the natural world around us and has a huge role to play in future economic prosperity and the health of our planet and its 7 billion people. In the coming decades we are going to find ourselves more and more dependent on the solutions science can offer to grand challenges such as food shortages, climate change and tackling disease.
"These scientists who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society have already contributed much to the scientific endeavour following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Newton, Darwin and Einstein and it gives me great pleasure to welcome them into our ranks," said Sir Paul Nurse.
Read about all the Fellows elected in 2013 to the Royal Society at: http://royalsociety.org/news/2013/new-Fellows-2013/
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San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012
The Concordia University Wisconsin softball team heads into the Northern Athletic Conference Tournament on May 3rd, as the number three seed. The CUW Falcons go into the tournament with two weekend wins giving them a 19-5 NAC conference mark.
Leading this program to its successful year is Nike Softball Camp director, Steve Crook. Crook is responsible for the Nike Softball Camp at Concordia University Wisconsin this summer and plans to conduct his camp in a similar structure to his collegiate practices.
"NIKE Softball Camps is pleased to have Steve Crook as a new director for 2012" Mike de Surville Vice President of US Sports Camps stated. "Along with his proven track record this season and success in past years at CUW, Coach Crook has a coaching style that encompasses both the mental and physical aspects of the game."
The 2012 season marks Coach Crook's 13th year as Head Coach for the Falcon Softball Program and in the 2011 season CUW advanced to the NCAA Tournament and won their first-ever contest at that prestigious level.
The team is on track to have another strong finish in the NAC before Crook shifts his gears to directing NIKE Softball Camp this summer.
About US Sports Camps
US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America's largest sports camp network and the licensed operator of NIKE Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.
Players, Coaches, Parents and others interested in the 2012 Nike Softball Camps can visit ussportscamps.com/softball or call 1-800-645-3226.


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text: Red Pill News 296 e-mails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reveal her obsession with killing Gaddafi E-mails to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released by the State Department reveal US officials working overtime to orchestrate the fall of Libya. Published 3 years ago on May 24, 2015 By alexrpt 0 Views Share Tweet Anyone who truly believes Hillary will be a good US President is delusional. Let's not also forget that Sarkozy and Cameron were instrumental in helping Hillary destroy Libya. Now the citizen's of the very nation they demolished are trying to enter Europe via Italy in the thousands. UK and France want the Libyan immigrants trying to seek safe refuge in Europe turned away. Talk about breaking something and not buying it. For her part, Hillary Clinton appeared to have been running a shadow operation to remove Gaddafi with the shady Mr. Sidney Blumenthal, a man who holds no position in the US government, Obama cabinet or US Defense Department. Sputnik News Agency reports… A cache of 296 e-mails to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released by the State Department on Friday reveal US officials working overtime to orchestrate the fall of a foreign government. On March 27, 2011, Clinton's longtime close adviser Sidney Blumenthal briefed her about allied special forces activities to undermine then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. "An extremely sensitive source added that the rebels are receiving direct assistance and training from a small number of Egyptian Special Forces units, while French and British Special Operations troops are working out of bases in Egypt, along the Libyan border," Blumenthal wrote to Clinton. Blumenthal was never hired by the State Department in any office capacity, but he was one of Clinton's closest and most influential advisers, the published e-mails reveal. "These troops are overseeing the transfer of weapons and supplies to the rebels," he added. Blumenthal has no specialized expertise or experience covering the Middle East, but he sent Clinton numerous, long-detailed reports on Libya, combining intelligence assessments, political analysis and rumours. All the e-mails addressed "Sid"[ney Blumenthal] and "Hillary" [Clinton]. The State Department e-mails were part of a cache of 30,000 messages that Clinton received or sent on her personal server, in addition to her official communications within the State Department during her tenure from 2009 to 2013. References: http://sputniknews.com/us/20150523/1022478340.html Related Topics:Hillary Clintonemail scandalLibyaMuammar GaddafiBenghaziSidney Blumenthalimgx Up Next The fake BUK smoke trail photos that no western main stream media wants to talk about Don't Miss Juncker was definitely drunk in Latvia. EU approves €1.8 billion loan to bankrupt, insolvent Ukraine Advertisement You may like Judicial Watch Calls for Re-Opening of Hillary Email Investigation After More Classified Info Found Can America Ever Come Together Again? 'Too Big to Fail': Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack Comments Latest Doug Casey on Social Media: "Facebook enshrines stupidity" "Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook." Published 1 day ago on August 19, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Joel Bowman via InternationalMan.com: Joel Bowman: G'day, Doug. Thanks for speaking with us today. Doug Casey: No problem, Joel. It's a pleasure to hear your Australian accent come across the ether from Mexico. Joel: Let's dive right in. A week or two ago, Facebook registered the largest single day loss for any one company in stock market history – roughly $122 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost around $15 billion himself, as much as the annual GDP of several resource-rich, West African nations. Looking back to 2000, during the go-go days of the dot.com boom, Intel and Microsoft both registered staggering single-day losses, too… $90 billion and $80 billion, respectively. And we know what happened next in that case… So, investors want to know… is past prologue? What's next for Silicon Valley's tech darlings? Doug: Talking about losing multiple billions in a single day, it's really a sign of the times. I remember when the only billionaires in the world were Howard Hughes, John Paul Getty and John Beresford Tipton– the mythical billionaire on a 1950's-era show called "The Millionaire." These days, however, it seems everyone's a billionaire. In fact, there are several thousand billionaires roaming the planet today, with new ones being minted almost every day. Of course, much of this so-called wealth is just paper. It's not real. In fact, it's pretty clear to me that we're in a stock market bubble. Which is being driven by the bond market hyper-bubble. And that, in turn, is fueling a real estate bubble, which I believe is just now beginning to deflate in major cities around the world. None of this augurs well for the stock market. You've got bubbles all over the place. Except in the resource market. That's the one place that hasn't inflated. In fact, it's been going down since it's last peak in 2011. Getting back to Facebook, I hope it goes bankrupt. I hate it as an institution. I hate what it does. I don't like its policies. I don't like its management. I don't like the fact that it's causing people to destroy whatever privacy they have left. While turning their brains to mush sending out selfies all day. Joel: You've put a lot on the table there, Doug. Let's unpack a bit of that, starting with the general tendency toward cerebral rot… Many younger readers may not remember this, but there actually existed a time before everybody knew everything, when people had to read books and discuss them, engage in healthy debate and rigorous dialectic in order to learn and develop intellectually. Now that everyone apparently has plenty of time to Instagram their kale salads and "like" one and other's cat pictures, are we to assume mankind has finally reached the End of Learning…some new Age of Enlightenment? Or might Facebook and its (anti)social media cousins represent – in addition to the potential fallout for investors – another, hidden cost to society? Doug: Perhaps humanity is bifurcating into the Morlocks and the Eloi at this point. It's true that people used to go to libraries. But even the Library of Congress has only a tiny fraction the world's data available; libraries are quaint and delightful, but they're dinosaurs. All the knowledge in the world is now at our fingertips on the Internet. The Internet is one of the greatest inventions in history, on a par with moveable type and the Gutenburg printing press. A few people are using it to educate and better themselves—but relatively few. Most people just use it for trivial amusement, as you mentioned. Facebook adds very little value to the equation. In fact, I can't see that it does much that's productive. It's basically a vehicle for gossip and watching cat videos. Joel: And it's less than that. Aside from the general degradation of public discourse, social media also represents a kind of unalterable historical record of bad jokes and regrettable moments, accessible to anyone who may wish to besmirch one's character or skittle one's reputation. We've all said things we wish we hadn't. To err is to be human, after all. What do you make of a world in which everyone's worst moments are readily available to everyone else – including potential enemies – at the click of a mouse? Doug: Facebook enshrines stupidity. A heavy Facebook user is, in effect, saying: "Look at me! I'm a thoughtless person who doesn't have anything better to do with his time". That's on top of the fact that users are exposing their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts to the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and any of a hundred other nefarious agencies. In fact, there are credible allegations that Facebook, along with Google and Amazon, are willing tools of these intelligence agencies. No good can come of being a Facebookista. But that's about whether you should use Facebook. Whether you should own Facebook stock is a different question. Even after the recent selloff, Facebook still has a market cap of about $500 billion, which impresses me as a lot for a chat site cum advertising vehicle. Especially one where most of its growth is behind it. A lot of users are getting hip to the fact they're not customers, they're the product. Facebook was a clever innovation ten years ago. But you know, there's an old saying in the stock market: High Tech, Big Wreck! Just as Myspace was displaced by Facebook, I predict Facebook 2.0 will come along and replace Facebook. My understanding is that kids now see Facebook as something used by old people– people over 21 years of age. So if it's going nowhere with the younger generation, where's it's future? Maybe it picks up a billion new users in the Third World. Ultimately, what's that worth? Facebook may not be a terminal short sale, but I certainly won't be putting any of my own money into the stock. Joel: Assuming you're correct and Facebook 2.0 does displace the current market leader, are you hopeful that such a platform may serve to promote a heightened level of discourse? Perhaps people might find their way into "phyles," that is, subgroups based on commonly shared values that actually have real world meaning? Doug: I hope that, in a year or two, International Man itself grows into a community of likeminded people with above average I.Q.s, libertarian values, and real world experience. IM might, itself, even branch off to become its own kind of Facebook. A private version. I know there's a lot of talk about regulating FB, or breaking it up. That's a bad idea; the government should have zero to do with business in general—and areas related to free speech in particular. I'm disgusted by the fact FB has kicked Alex Jones and others off their platform. But they have a right to do so, as a private company. Although, on the other hand, they're almost a creature of the State. But that's not an excuse for the government to "step in". What will happen is that a newer, better Facebook lookalike—or a dozen of them—will replace them. FB will self-destruct. It's a non-problem. To be frank, you and I don't really have that much in common with most of the 7.3 billion people on this planet. In fact, while I like many individual humans, I despise humanity in general. The more people you put together in a group, the more they act like chimpanzees. Big groups force down the lowest common denominator. There's some cause for optimism, but only on a person-to-person basis. I prefer the company of people who value free minds and free markets—and I suspect most people who are reading this now feel the same way. Joel: That's probably a very good note to end this conversation on, Doug. Thanks, as always, for taking the time. Doug: Meanwhile, we'll look for something with the potential of Facebook in 2008… and stay away from Facebook today. Continue Reading Latest Can America Ever Come Together Again? The people who cheer Trump believe the country they inherited from their fathers was a great, good and glorious country, and that the media who detest Trump also despise them. Published 2 days ago on August 18, 2018 By Patrick J. Buchanan Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org: If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance. He would have been challenged to a duel and shot. "Trump's … performance in Helsinki," Brennan had said, "exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was … treasonous." Why should the president not strip from a CIA director who calls him a traitor the honor and privilege of a security clearance? Or is a top-secret clearance an entitlement like Social Security? CIA directors retain clearances because they are seen as national assets, individuals whose unique experience, knowledge and judgment may be called upon to assist a president in a national crisis. Not so long ago, this was a bipartisan tradition. Who trashed this tradition? Was it not the former heads of the security agencies — CIA, FBI, director of national intelligence — who have been leveling the kind of savage attacks on the chief of state one might expect from antifa? Are ex-security officials entitled to retain the high privileges of the offices they held, if they descend into cable-TV hatred and hostility? Former CIA chief Mike Hayden, in attacking Trump for separating families of detained illegal immigrants at the border, tweeted a photo of the train tracks leading into Auschwitz. "Other governments have separated mothers and children" was Hayden's caption. Is that fair criticism from an ex-CIA director? Thursday, The New York Times decried Trump's accusation that the media are "the enemy of the people." "Insisting that truths you don't like are 'fake news' is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' is dangerous, period," said the Times. Fair enough, but is it not dangerous for a free press to be using First Amendment rights to endlessly bash a president as a racist, fascist, sexist, neo-Nazi, liar, tyrant and traitor? The message of journalists who use such terms may be to convey their detestation of Trump. But what is the message received in the sick minds of people like that leftist who tried to massacre Republican congressmen practicing for their annual softball game with Democrats? And does Trump not have a point when he says the Boston Globe-organized national attack on him, joined in by the Times and 300 other newspapers, was journalistic "collusion" against him? If Trump believes that CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post are mortal enemies who want to see him ousted or impeached, is he wrong? We are an irreconcilable us-against-them nation today, and given the rancor across the ideological, social and cultural chasm that divides us, it is hard to see how, even post-Trump, we can ever come together again. Speaking at a New York LGBT gala in 2016, Hillary Clinton said: "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables … racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … Some of those folks … are irredeemable, but … they are not America." When Clinton's reflections on Middle America made it into print, she amended her remarks. Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo rushed to amend his comments yesterday when he blurted at a bill-signing ceremony: "We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great." America was "never that great"? Cuomo's press secretary hastened to explain, "When the president speaks about making America great again … he ignores the pain so many endured and that we suffered from slavery, discrimination, segregation, sexism and marginalized women's contributions." Clinton and Cuomo committed gaffes of the kind Michael Kinsley described as the blurting out of truths the speaker believes but desperately does not want a wider audience to know. In San Francisco in 2008, Barack Obama committed such a gaffe. Asked why blue-collar workers in industrial towns decimated by job losses were not responding to his message, Obama trashed these folks as the unhappy losers of our emerging brave new world: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." These clingers to their Bibles, bigotries and guns are the people the mainstream media, 10 years later, deride and dismiss as "Trump's base." What Clinton, Cuomo and Obama spilled out reveals what is really behind the cultural and ideological wars of America today. Most media elites accept the historic indictment — that before the Progressives came, this country was mired in racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, and that its history had been a long catalog of crimes against indigenous peoples, Africans brought here in bondage, Mexicans whose lands we stole, migrants, and women and gays who were denied equality. The people who cheer Trump believe the country they inherited from their fathers was a great, good and glorious country, and that the media who detest Trump also despise them. For such as these, Trump cannot scourge the media often enough. Continue Reading Latest College offer courses on 'queering' children, the Bible US Colleges are teaching students to "queer" Christianity and religion in general. Published 3 days ago on August 17, 2018 By Campus Reform Authored by Celine Ryan via Campus Reform: This school year, students across the country will attend courses on "Queering the Bible," "Queering Childhood," "Queering Theology," and similar topics. Students at Pomona College in Claremont, California, for instance, will have the opportunity to enroll in a brand new course titled "Queering Childhood," which will examine "the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness." The course description explains that students will examine the childhoods of "queer and crip children," as well as "childhoods against which the figure of the Child is articulated," with reference to work related to "gender studies, childhood studies, disability studies, and queer theory." Colleges are not only attempting to "queer" childhood, they are teaching students to "queer" Christianity and religion in general, as well. This fall, Eugene Lang College will offer a course titled "Queering and Decolonizing Theology," where students will explore topics such as "the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community," and "transgender Christs." "Christian theology is often depicted as a violent colonial force standing in particular opposition to LGBTQI lives. However, over the last 30 years people of faith, activists, and theorists alike have rediscovered what is queer within Christianity, uncovered what is religious within secular queer communities, and used postcolonial theory to decolonize lived religious practices and theologies," the course description asserts. According to the college, the course "explores secular philosophies of queer and postcolonial theory as well as their critical and constructive application to religion," focusing on topics like "the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community, transgender Christs, and the mestiza (or mixed) cultures of Latin America." Similarly, students at Harvard Divinity School will be able to attend a course on "Queer Theologies, Queer Religions" this fall, which will explore the "project of 'queer theology'" and how it relates to "larger aspirations of queer religion or spirituality in America." In this course, students will begin by "sampling the efforts to revise traditional Christian theologies in order to accept or affirm same-sex loves." After that, they will move on to examining "forgotten possibilities in historical engagements between advocates of homosexual rights and established religious bodies (chiefly churches and synagogues)." "We will consider the boundaries between queer theology and queer theory or between it and other political theologies," the course description explains. "We will test the boundaries of 'Christianity' while considering the varied forms of queer religion outside familiar religious institutions—in spirituality or spiritualism, in magic or neo-paganism, in erotic asceticism." Swarthmore College students, meanwhile, will survey "queer and trans* readings of biblical texts" during a course titled "Queering the Bible," which will introduce them to "the complexity of constructions of sex, gender, and identity in one of the most influential literary works produced in ancient times." "By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans* theoretical approaches," the description promises, "this class destabilizes long held assumptions about what the [B]ible—and religion—says about gender and sexuality." The University of San Francisco is also getting into the act with a course on "Christian Feminist Theology" that aims to "develop an understanding of how feminist scholarship provides one fruitful means towards reappropriation of central Christian insights about God." The course will facilitate "critical reflection upon the experience of God, and insights from feminist thought," according to the description. In a similar vein, students enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's "Gender, Sexuality, and Religion" course "will read religion through a variety of feminist and queer theory lenses- exploring the key characteristics of diverse feminist analyses of religion, as well as limits of specific feminist approaches." "In this course we will learn about women's and men's rituals, social roles, and mythologies in specific religious traditions," the course description explains. "We will also look at the central significance of gender to the field of religious studies generally, with particular attention to non-binary genders." To that end, the course will address questions such as "How important are the gender differences in deciding social roles, ritual activities, and spiritual vocations?" and "How does gender intersect with nationality, language, and politics?" 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The best part of post-election politics is watching the reforming of coalitions and groups of political thinkers. Win or lose, the great political animal called coalitions chops off one part, adds another and rises from the ashes reborn.
This happens at all levels and all politics is local, whether national or next door.
The Republican Party is the most intriguing to follow now because the scramble is on to find the center of power and, of course, the money. Many Democrats would like to give them the 10 count. Be careful boys, that way lies madness.
My political handicapping centers on figuring out coalitions and whether the groups are rising or falling. They are always doing one or the other. Stasis is not an option.
The national Republican Party is getting more press, partly because it is entertaining for TV news, the other reality show, and partly because there truly is a mad scramble for the money to fund campaigns. Without money, campaigns don't flutter and robo calls aren't made, which means more losing and more guys with kielbasa heads ranting on the tube election night.
The more interesting, but less watched, are the local coalitions that form in local communities. These groups can start with just a few and grow into a force.
Black Diamond provides a good example. A number of different groups have formed and reformed into coalitions mainly around the issue of support or fighting against the YarrowBay development.
A coalition based on the fight against YarrowBay formed and successfully backed candidates during the 2011 council races, sweeping three into office. But that coalition did not hold when a change-of-government proposition went to the ballot and failed in November. I suspect because it was really seen as a backdoor recall of the mayor.
Change-of-government measures nearly always fail due to the real reason they are taken to the public, which is seldom to really change the form of government and usually to change the government — rather than waiting for another election season.
Those darn, pesky rules.
Coalitions are already taking shape in Black Diamond with the mayor's seat and three council members up for election in November. This is the bread-and-butter of local politics and democracy – both fascinating and fun to observe. Win or lose, the coalitions make the system work — sometimes for the better.
There are times when lines are crossed and behavior gets boorish or worse. That is why we call it politics and not sponge Yahtzee.
Another series of races to watch are in Enumclaw. There are four council seats and the mayor's post up for grabs. Coalitions are less easily defined in Enumclaw, but they are there. Enumclaw does not have the white elephant sitting on the coffee table like some communities, but give it time.
Bonney Lake has three council seats and the mayor's chair on the next general election ballot.
Since the days when I first started with the Bonney Lake Courier-Herald, the city has become a model of democratic functioning. Back in 2003, Bonney Lake and Covington were like Dodge City without the funny hats. Now, both are the most settled municipal governments around the region.
Funny how things change. One year the guns are blazing and the next it's Kumbaya… American politics, national or next door.
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Mardi Gras can be a great inspiration for a wedding or party. Bright colors, mysterious masks and glittery, sparkling decor make for a fabulous affair. Wren Photography partnered up with many great local wedding vendors to show how different a masquerade-inspired wedding could be.It all started with the perfect wedding venue in downtown Marquette, Michigan. The exposed brick of the historic building on the waterfront was the perfect backdrop for an event filled with adventure and mystery.
The bride accents her stunning attire with accessories that fit the theme and make her ensemble unique.
The couple opts for a set of intriguing rings in a stacked design.
This bride is ready for some fun. Let the masquerade begin!
The bride and her party show off their jazzy platforms.
Sparkling, colorful masks accent the decor.
The bouquets are bursting with color in deep red roses and flaming calla lilies. Fern curls, feathers, and touches of purple make it whimsical.
The wedding cake is also colorful and eclectic, with each tier in varying patterns and a huge feather topper. The purple and teal color scheme carries through the cake and decor.
There's also a cupcake bar filled with adorable masked confections and draped in strands of beads. It just isn't Mardi Gras without some beads.
The bride and groom share a first dance.
At the end, the wedding party rides off in an amazing limo bus with a mirrored black finish that was perfect for pictures.
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Appalachian residents are working to keep local and sustainable sources of wealth central in a post-coal economy.
Brooke Jarvis
Corporations often take big helpings of public funds, saying that they'll provide jobs in return. But how can communities make sure they deliver?
Do regulations really hurt small businesses? Or do businesses thrive when local residents can afford their services, and a good quality of life attracts skilled workers?
Following activist pressure and corporate defections, ALEC says it's dropping its Stand Your Ground and voter ID efforts. So what comes next?
What the corporate departures mean—and don't.
From town meetings to the state legislature, Vermont is sending a strong message on corporate involvement in politics.
Occupy's latest target: corporations that write their agendas into state laws.
The latest attempt to push through the Keystone XL pipeline is meeting some spirited opposition.
The Occupy effect? In the last 3 months, Americans switched banks at three times the normal rate.
What happened when major sites went on strike to offer a taste of a censored Internet.
From courthouses to statehouses, the pro-corporate ruling is under pressure.
What's the issue that unites the occupiers and the city they're occupying? Getting corporate money out of politics.
How thousands of determined protesters dragged a little-known pipeline into the national spotlight—and convinced the Obama administration to delay its approval.
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By Douglas Burns
What a congresswoman really does
The currency of our democracy is accessibility, the ability to walk right up to a Member of Congress at a town hall and ask for help with your Medicare issue, challenge her on a health-care vote or solicit support for your son's ambitions to attend the U.S. Military Academy.
We so often think of our politicians through a "West Wing" sense, with high drama, a la the now-syndicated NBC show, and Lincoln-Douglas debates, eloquent speeches filling the days. High-minded stuff.
But much of what makes a legislator is the schedule-taxing, not-so-thrilling work of constituent services, exactly what Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was doing in Tucson Saturday morning when a fringe-thinking 22-year-old whose motives were still largely unknown opened fire at grocery parking lot, killing six people and injuring 14, including the congresswoman.
We know this much. The congresswoman was the shooter's target.
This is personal for all Americans because it attacks that basic exchange so essential to democracy. Approachability. That's why the Iowa Caucuses are so special and effective. We interact with political celebrities as regular folk.
I was on a treadmill Saturday morning as word of the shooting spread across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, all channels I roamed for the rest of the day. For two years, in the 1990s, I was one of the people who stood beside a congresswoman at such events. I was the communications director/press secretary for a conservative "blue dog" Democrat, Congresswoman Pat Danner of Missouri. She was a pro-gun, pro-working man party maverick (when that term meant what it means) who brilliantly navigated a conservative rural district, earning a reputation as something of a tough grandmother who knew how to fight for Maryville, Mo., in Washington, D.C. Her district and positioning in it was not unlike that of Congresswoman Giffords.
It was my job, privilege, really, to lead Congresswoman Danner through a gaggle of reporters after a State of The Union speech, to arrange all manner and variety of interaction with the media — and, yes, to at times, staff her at town hall meetings in northwest Missouri, in and around St. Joseph and Maryville .
At a different time, I stood in the same place as those aides who were gunned down. This is not lost on me.
In the last decade and a half since I moved back to Iowa to rejoin The Carroll Daily Times Herald, I've covered well over a hundred town-hall political events. At least. They can be grueling for members, particularly in rural districts, where a day of them may involve six or eight meetings and hundreds of miles of windshield time.
From time to time, the political ambitious will call me and ask what I think about their intentions to run for office, for the Legislature or Congress. "Would I be good at it?" they ask.
"Well," I have said. "So much of it involves that nuts-and-bolts community service. You'll spend days listening to the elderly tell you their health problems, nights listening to veterans who are shorted on benefits. And the next day, school teachers and parents will want answers on education. It's a grind, and most of the job, if you do it right, involves fighting behind-the-scenes for your constituents on thousands of individual matters that have little to do with who is a Democrat or Republican and everything to do with getting the right paperwork to the right agency at the right time."
We would do well to remember this now about our representatives — to look at the actual definition of what they do, not how they are defined by blowhard bloggers and mouth-breathing radio voices.
As of press time we had much to learn about the Arizona shooter (who doesn't deserve the infamy of widespread use of his name in print).
The cable commentariat and blogosphere are pregnant with speculation that the shooting spree had been imminent for sometime, that the roiling, boiling rhetoric of the last year, from Sarah Palin's crosshairs over certain Democratic districts on her PAC map to "pull the plug on grandma" hysterics about health care, collectively set the scene for violence. There's much to learn about the shooter before motive is assigned and larger conclusions can be drawn about political rhetoric and its consequences.
The attention, as it should, will be trained by anti-hate trackers like the Southern Poverty Law Center on fringe groups.
But the apathetic, wishy-washy Great American Middle is a force through its silence and vacillation.
In Iowa, 712,553 voters are registered as independents. It's the largest block. This means they are largely out of the structuring of the state's two-party system, meaning people on the radical edges, those whose voices should be shouted down as irrelevant, crazy, must be tolerated and, yes, cultivated to a level that is downright frightening.
The story of the contemporary American political climate is just as much about who isn't talking as it is about who is. CV
Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa newspaperman who writes for The Carroll Daily Times Herald and offers columns for Cityview.


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North Korea: Life in US is a 'living hell'
Can turnabout be fair play?
After being the subject of global scorn following a highly critical UN report on its human rights abuses, North Korea has released a "news analysis" on the US human rights record.
Calling the US "the world's worst human rights abuser", the state-run Korea Central News Agency says the nation is "a living hell, as elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated".
The writers open the report by noting US President Barack Obama's admission that race is still a problem in the US during his remarks at commemorations on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which they call the "anniversary of the institution of citizenship").
They go on to list a litany of offences that reads like a cribbing from left-leaning US op-ed pages and opinion magazines, mixed with a dollop of Soviet-era revelling in US decadence and decay.
Racism, crime and unemployment run rampant, they write. Lax gun laws are "boosting murderous crimes," and housing prices are soaring, "leaving many people homeless".
(The North Koreans lose points for failing to cite Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Such low-hanging fruit!)
"The number of impoverished people increased to 46.5 millions last year," they continue, "and one sixth of the citizens and 20-odd% of the children are in the grip of famine in New York City."
While the US burns, they say, US President Barack Obama "indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life".
There is, of course, the obligatory reference to drones and the NSA surveillance scandal:
The US government has monitored every movement of its citizens and foreigners, with many cameras and tapping devices and even drones involved, under the pretext of "national security".
And the North Koreans call out the Trayvon Martin shooting:
The US true colours as a kingdom of racial discrimination was fully revealed by last year's case that the Florida Court gave a verdict of not guilty to a white policeman who shot to death an innocent black boy.
(George Zimmerman, of course, was not a police officer.)
Although a few of the insults seem to have lost a bit in translation, such as when they say the US is a "tundra of a human being's rights to existence", the intent seems clear: a glass-house US shouldn't be throwing stones at North Korea.
So how are the US media responding to these allegations? With a resounding "Yeah, but..."
The Daily Beast's Nina Strochlic says it's "disturbing" that North Koreans didn't have to embellish the statistics very much to make their point:
North Korea does manage to hit on the country's most vehemently discussed hot-button topics, and not just those with fringe backing. And the criticism levelled at America wouldn't be entirely ridiculous if it wasn't coming from the mouth of an accuser with much worse charges on its rap sheet.
The Atlantic's Matt Ford takes a line-by-line look at the North Korean allegations and finds quite a few shortcomings, however.
"It's unclear whether North Korea's economic analysis here is intentionally misleading or just factually deficient," he writes.
KCNA did correctly observe that 46.5 million Americans live in poverty and that the number is rising. One in five children in New York City does live in a food-scarce home, but the claim that these children live in the "grip of famine" is hyperbolic.
He adds, however, that "Pyongyang's sins don't make Washington a saint".
At least Americans know about their nation's problems and are actively engaged in debating them, writes PolicyMic's Matt Essert.
"Americans can openly complain about their country and government without fearing a trip to a work camp, so the option to change and improve America is a very real one (even if it's also a difficult one)," he says.
The Washington Post's Adam Taylor says that gun crime is the only part of North Korea's statistics that is "truly debatable":
While it's true that the number of mass shootings has risen in the United States, violent crime in general has dropped over the past few years, with homicide rates down in most major cities.
In the end, he says, the report shows that "whataboutism" - attempting to deflect blame by pointing the finger elsewhere - is "better than ever in the 21st Century".
That North Korea can employ such a tactic and not immediately be laughed out of the room, however, is a bit disturbing for those of us living in the tundra.


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pharmacies in Missouri would be shielded from requirements to stock specific drugs, such as emergency contraception, if legislation passed Thursday by the Senate ultimately becomes law.
The measure, which was sent to the House by a 24-9 Senate vote, was touted by its sponsor as a way to protect the rights of business owners.
"You go into a clothing store, and they can stock whatever they want to. I just want to make sure that pharmacies have the same right to do that," said sponsoring Sen. David Sater, a Republican pharmacist from the southwest Missouri town of Cassville. "It's a freedom of doing business."
Although the legislation doesn't specifically mention birth control, Sater said his measure was prompted by efforts elsewhere to require pharmacies to fill particular prescriptions such as emergency contraception.
Some Democrats said that's why they opposed the legislation.
"I understand the business side of this ... that it's important that pharmacies be able to stock those drugs that they are going to be using," said Senate Minority Leader Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City. But "there are a few of us who have concerns that this might be used by folks to not stock birth control, or what's commonly known as Plan B."
The morning-after pill is basically a high-dose version of birth control pills that prevents ovulation if taken within a few days after sex. Because a prescription is required for those younger than 17, it is sold from behind pharmacy counties at a cost of around $35 to $60 a dose.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group that tracks laws on reproductive health, five states have laws requiring pharmacies or pharmacists to fill valid prescriptions, though courts in two of those states have ruled that the law cannot be enforced against pharmacies that refuse to dispense emergency contraception.
A greater number of states have laws specifically allowing pharmacies or pharmacists to refuse to dispense emergency contraception.
Missouri law currently is silent on the topic.
Sater's measure says that "no pharmacy licensed in this state shall be required to carry or maintain in inventory any specific prescription or nonprescription drug or device."
The Missouri Pharmacy Association, which supports the measure, said that although some pharmacies may not stock emergency contraception because of moral objections, others may want to exclude it simply because there is not enough customer demand to ensure they sell it before the expiration date.
"There are thousands and thousands and thousands of drug products," said association CEO Ron Fitzwater. "Our concern is once you start identifying and saying you have to stock this product, we don't know where the process ends."
The use of emergency contraception has increased among women over the past decade or so.
A report released in February by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 11 percent of women ages 15-44 who reported having sex said they had used the morning-after pill. That was up from 4 percent in 2002. The recent study was based on interviews of more than 12,000 women in 2006 through 2010.
Missouri Rep. Stacey Newman, D-St. Louis, has filed legislation that would require pharmacies to fill contraception prescriptions. But it still has not been referred to a committee, meaning it is unlikely to pass.


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After an abortion (termination) you may bleed for up to two weeks and, in some cases, the bleeding may continue right up until your next period.
After an abortion, you can usually have sex as soon as you feel ready.
But you may experience some discomfort and vaginal bleeding for a week or two, so you may want to wait until this stops before having sex again.
Use contraception if you don't want to get pregnant, as you may be fertile from immediately after the abortion.
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Learners will identify, become familiar with and use the Engineering Design Process, use the engineering design process to sketch a reasonable drawing of the rover that will be built, use the steps of the engineering design process to build a Mars... (View More) Rover prototype, develop a concept map to communicate requirements and features of the rover. The lesson uses the 5E instructional model and includes: TEKS Details (Texas Standards alignment), Essential Question, Science Notebook, Vocabulary Definitions for Students, Vocabulary Definitions for Teachers, three Vocabulary Cards, and a concept map Mini-Lesson. This is lesson 11 of the Mars Rover Celebration Unit, a six week long curriculum. (View Less)
Learners will review the structure, content and size of the Solar System. This lesson is designed using the 5E instructional model and includes: teacher training, unit pacing guides, essential questions, a black-line master science notebook, a... (View More) student presentation booklet, supplemental materials, and vocabulary for both students and teachers. This is lesson 1 of the Mars Rover Celebration Unit, a six week long curriculum. (View Less)
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This activity enables students to better understand the motion of the Sun and how we use it to measure time. Students create a "horizon calendar" at their school by carefully observing and recording the horizon and the Sun at sunset (or sunrise, for... (View More) early risers) over a period of weeks or months. Part 1 of this activity can be done as a whole group and involves selecting and drawing a detailed map of the site. Part 2 of this activity can be done as a whole group and involves determining the direction west and drawing the horizon line. Part 3 should be done by the teacher since it involves making weekly observations at sunset (or sunrise), which is outside of regular school hours. Part 4 can be done with the whole class and involves using the data from the observations to calculate the average rate of change in sunset time and respond to discussion questions. The activity is not time-consuming, but must be conducted over a period of at least a few weeks. It is best as a semester unit, or even a project for the entire school year. Also, the best time of year to run this activity is around the equinoxes: March and September. The lesson plan includes discussion questions, background information about desert horizons, and a math extension activity in which students calculate how the time of sunrise or sunset changes from day to day. This activity is the sixth lesson in the Ancient Eyes Look to the Skies curriculum guide. (View Less)
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This activity explores how ancient Sun observers made use of natural and built structures to mark solar alignments observed at different times of the year, particularly around the solstices and equinoxes. In Part 1, the teacher prepares a horizon... (View More) table that represents the Earth's horizon. In Part 2, students create functioning models of an existing ancient solar observatory or design their own observatory. In Part 3, students test their model using the horizon table and a flashlight as the Sun. The lesson includes discussion questions, background information about Maya astronomy, a checklist for science notebook write-ups, and a math extension activity that measures shadows. This activity is the seventh lesson in the Ancient Eyes Look to the Skies curriculum. (View Less)
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With a high court ruling supporting South Africa's constitutional right to sanitation, Cape Town's "brutal – and farcical – toilet wars" have come to an end. Protesters from the Makhaza neighbourhood of the black township Khayelitsha, that was at the centre of the dispute, greeted the court decision with cheers.
On 29 April 2011, the Western Cape High Court ruled that the city government must build enclosures around government-provided toilets in Makhaza, ending a two-year dispute that had become a heated political issue between the country's two largest political parties.
It might seem like a small matter, but with local elections planned for May 18 [2011] across the country, the court decision is likely to become a matter of national political discussion, if not significance. Cape Town is run by South Africa's second-largest political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), an opponent of the ruling African National Congress (ANC)


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YARD CPH ApS was founded in 2008 by Anette Holmberg and is today hosting SKABELONLOFTET and YARD PRC ROOM.
Corporate events - We arrange corporate- meetings, seminars, conferences and events for groups from 18 to 240 persons.
Yard Prc Room - Yard Project Room host Art Exhibitions, Art performances, Art events, ect.
Skabelonloftet is an 80 years old shipyard loft on top of the former Burmeister & Wain shipyard at Refshaleøen in Copenhagen harbour. The shipyad is located in a bankrupped abandoned industrial area and it holds a beautiful patination - an aesthetic scenery of decay, with a view over the ocean, only a few 100 meter from the little mermaid. The loft is a place where commercial, artistic and innovative forces meets and interact - and for the media to find inspiration and experience contemporary danish art, culture and urban development. A community through the arts, shared among architects, artists, industrial-, fashion-, web-, grafic-, interior-, jewellery-, furniture- designers, reporters, sculptors, filmmakers, theaterpeople, documentarists, illustrators, photographers, visuel artists, communication advisers etc. The loft holds studios for rent on a permanent basis. and can be rented on a daily basis for seminars, product launches, dinners, conferences, photoshoots, press releases, music videos, blogger events, pop up restaurants, art exhibitions, happenings...
Burmeister & Wain shipyard (1843 - 1996). B&W was once Denmark´s largest workplace. In its heyday, it employed more than 10.000 people. B&W was established in 1843 and after numerous bankrupcies, the shipyard closed in 1996. The work that took place at Skabelonloftet was skimming. Full size templates was made, based on the shipdrawings. A job that required plenty of space. Today you can still find the original metal templatedrawings as decoration at the loft on doors and tables. DOCUMENTARY - MEN & METAL
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Mobiles, Sculptures, 3D printing, Interactive art. More info: www.yardproject.dk Frédéric Dilé
Filmshooting - Interview with Bjorn Lomborg organized by the Bill Gates foundation.: Bjørn Lomborg, an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, founded and directs the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which seeks to study environmental problems and solutions using the best available analytical methods. He is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, and is the editor of How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?
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Fernisering på udstillingen "Den usminkede virkelighed" d. 6. Juni kl. 17 - 20. Udstillingen består af Henrik Damgaards fotos fra borgen DAD live shots og malerier fra kunstnerne Poul Bruun og Anette Holmberg.
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Put on a pair of happy glasses for a surprice exsperience in YARD gallery. A light installation by POINT and Albert Eilko.
Olga is doing a guided tour today at the loft.
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Questions and answers on Oregon insurance exchange
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Of the Associated Press
PORTLAND — While other states have fought President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul, known as the Affordable Care Act, Oregon has embraced it and is working hard to implement it.
The law requires every state to have a new health insurance marketplace called an exchange. Oregon's Legislature created an exchange in 2011 and approved its business model the following year.
The exchange, which is known here as Cover Oregon, will be an online shopping center for small business and for people who don't get health coverage from their employer. Users will be able to compare the costs and benefits of various insurance plans, and they'll be able to find out whether they qualify for federal subsidies to help pay their premiums.
Here are answers to some common questions about the Oregon health insurance exchange:
Q: How many people are uninsured in Oregon and how many of them are projected to get insurance under the exchange?
A: In 2010, 636,000 people were uninsured, according to the Oregon Insurance Division. State officials expect 237,100 people to get insurance through the exchange in 2014.
Q: How many people in Oregon are currently served by Medicaid, and how many more will be served after the Medicaid expansion on Jan. 1, 2014?
A: Just over 555,0000 people were enrolled in the traditional Medicaid program, known as Oregon Health Plan Plus, on Dec. 15, 2012. State officials estimate that the Medicaid expansion would add another 200,000 people.
Q: How is the exchange going to be set up in Oregon?
A: The Oregon Legislature has opted to create its own exchange, rather than leaving it up to the federal government or partnering with the Obama administration. It's a quasi-public corporation, similar to the agency that oversees workers compensation in Oregon, and is governed by a nine-member board. A separate advisory committee provides additional guidance for the board.
Q: How far along is Oregon in setting up an exchange? Will it be ready to start enrolling people by the October deadline?
A: Exchange officials say they are on track to be ready by October.
Q: How much money has Oregon received so far from the federal government to do the initial work in setting up an exchange?
A: Oregon has received more than $290 million from five grants.
Q: How will Oregonians access the exchange and what kind of customer support will be offered?
A: Cover Oregon will be accessible online at www.coveroregon.com and through a toll-free telephone number. Customer support will be offered through a call center, and insurance shoppers also will also be able to use "navigators" to help guide them through the process.
Q: How many people will Cover Oregon employ?
A: The exchange currently has 54 employees, a number that's expected to grow before the exchange launches next year, said Lisa Morawski, a spokeswoman. Additionally, dozens of temporary and permanent employees will staff the call center, but exact numbers are still being worked out, Morawski said.


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The purpose of Project iCAN is to teach individuals with ASD effective communication skills using an iPad and a communication app called, Proloquo2go. Training will be provided to income and program eligible families in Palm Beach County (PBC) that are registered constituents of Florida Atlantic University's Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (FAU CARD). The objective is to provide trainings to underprivileged families with severely affected children so that they can access and communicate with their world. This project will be spearheaded by FAU CARD clinician and FAU doctoral student, Elisa Cruz-Torres, BCBA.
Documentation supports that students with lower SES do not have access to the same variety of learning materials and supports as their peers with higher SES backgrounds. Lack of access to enriching resources may hinder language acquisition and opportunities for social engagement as well as mediate behavior problems. Children of low SES with ASD that have severely impaired communication skills and no access to stimulating learning materials have an even steeper uphill battle. They may be frustrated and bored and engage in inappropriate behaviors. Unfortunately, these inappropriate behaviors can also lead to negative responses from parents, peers, and teachers. Another problematic area is the inability to generalize acquired skills from one setting to another.
Currently, some ASD classrooms in the PBC School District are utilizing a variety of advanced assistive technology tools in the form of AAC devices as funded by the district. If students do not bring their own personal AAC devices, parents can request one from the district. Students with communication impairments can be taught to communicate more effectively in the school setting and, if given permission by the district, they may take the device home. Unfortunately, the device still belongs to the district. Unless accommodations are made, the device must be returned at the end of the school year. In essence, the student is losing his or her voice after learning how to use it. Also, it is unlikely parents are being trained. If students have the opportunity to take the AAC device home, it is critical that those in the home environment are taught how to use it.
Compared to other AAC devices, the iPad costs significantly less. It is also stimulating in its presentation, flexible in its customizability, and portable in its construction. Further, one of the most advantageous features is its acceptability. Compared to other more stigmatizing AAC devices, the instant "cool" factor associated with using the iPad provides individuals with ASD the opportunity to, not only communicate and socialize with their peers, but to be acknowledged and accepted.
The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) will be used to measure the effectiveness of the iPad and Proloquo2go in developing communicating skills. A portion of the funding from this grant will be provided to an Autism Resource Teacher employed with the PBCSD who has experience in conducting the VB-MAPP.
The iCAN project strongly supports Autism Speaks' mission to improve the quality of life for individuals affected by autism. With your support, FAU CARD will also be able to expand our current services by, not only providing the training to promote effective communication, but also the tools and related materials. FAU CARD also seeks to share results at regional, state, and national conferences. Autism Speaks Family Services will be credited at all trainings and presentations as the supporter of Project iCAN.
In order to achieve our goal, the iCAN project will consist of the following six phases. Phase 1 will consist of the participant selection where families registered with FAU CARD will be notified and interested members will receive an application form. Phase 2 will consist of pre-assessment where the VB-MAPP will be completed for each student. Phase 3 will consist of an all-day group workshop that will teach family members how to use the iPad, the communication app, and set boundaries. Phase 4 will provide in-home programming support. Phase 5 will consist of in-home and/or school consultation at regular time frames. Phase 6 consists of the post-assessment to measure gains.
Not only will Project iCAN directly impact underprivileged children with ASD in the Palm Beach County community, it will also extend the collaboration that currently exists between FAU CARD and school district personnel that serve students with autism. Including the staff in the assessment process and providing them with the option to participate in the iPad and Proloquo2go training in the school setting will help support FAU CARD's goal to optimize the potential for individuals with autism while training supporting family and staff to efficiently implement these tools.